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Failure to update software left Naperville computers vulnerable: report

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Dissent

A costly reminder of the need to patch and update promptly. Geoff Ziezulewicz reports: Hackers were able to break into Naperville’s computer network in an unprecedented 2012 cyber attack because of a vulnerability in the city’s web software that had not been patched, even though an alert and update had been released roughly a month…

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“Weev” obtains, leaks 11 undercover Planned Parenthood videos blocked by court

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Dissent

LifeSiteNews reports: The website GotNews.com claims it has obtained and released “all” the remaining undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials shot by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), including videos that were blocked from being released to the public by a court order. Eleven previously unseen videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The website’s founder,…

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Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. lose coverage in privacy breach case

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Dissent

Yelitza V. Dunham of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A group of Liberty Mutual insurance companies successfully obtained declaratory relief that they had no duty to defend Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. from two underlying actions alleging that spyware had been installed on rent-to-own computers. One of these, the Byrd Action, was a putative class action…

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CISA amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Dissent

Sam Thielman reports: An amendment to a controversial cybersecurity bill will allow US courts to pursue and jail foreign nationals even if the crimes they commit are against other foreigners and on foreign soil. The main aim of the amendment to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa), which passed a key Senate hurdle on Thursday,…

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Theft At U. Washington Leaves Human Rights Workers On Edge

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Dissent

Jennifer Wing reports: The theft of a computer and hard-drive containing the names and stories of people who survived the war in El Salvador has human rights workers on edge. The break-in happened in Smith Hall, in the offices of the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights, or CHR. UW’s Campus Police Department says…

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California DMV worker indicted in ID theft probe

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Dissent

AP reports: A clerk at the California Department of Motor Vehicles and five other people have been indicted on charges involving the creation of new identities with Puerto Rican documents that were then used to get driver’s licenses, authorities said Wednesday. DMV clerk Tracy Lynette Jones pleaded not guilty on Monday in federal court in…

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